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Status

Current state: Under Discussion

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JIRA: hereKAFKA-7418 

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Motivation

Currently, the '--help' option is not recognized by some Kafka commands . For example:

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Parsing logic of the Kafka commands shall be modified to handle the "--help" option.

Compatibility, Deprecation, and Migration Plan

• There won't be any change of current behavior. '--help' is a new option for CLI commands.